Re: [e4-dev] E4-Workbench needs a new plugin

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ralf,

Yes this is the intenion and if I manage to commit the patch from 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=266533 into the codebase 
it is completely free of SWT and only one reference is left because of 
IStructuredSelection (which will eventually go away too someday).

I already exchanged the underlying platform using UFaceKit [1] and 
yesterday in the night succeeded running on QT(Jambi) today.

There are 2 intenions currently:
a) Remove SWT from the core of the workbench to make it completely
   widget-toolkit agnostic

b) Move the Renderers (the part which is responsible to translate an
   Workbench-Model-Object into a visual representation) out and
   replaceable because this is how themeing will work in E4

Tom

[1]http://tom-eclipse-dev.blogspot.com/2009/03/give-your-e4-application-modern-look.html

Ralf Sternberg schrieb:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Tom Schindl wrote:
> > Just to inform you I've today factored out some code from the
> > "org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench into" an new bundle
> > "org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt".
>
> Is it the intention to remove all dependencies to SWT from the workbench
> eventually? I noticed that only a few classes still contain references
> to SWT/JFace.
>
> This would be good news for RAP since we could easily exchange the
> renderers with RWT ones and leave the workbench as is.
>
> Ralf
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